Hadron Multiplicities in p+p and p+Pb Collisions

Abstract

Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have measured multiplicity distributions in p+p and p+Pb collisions at a new domain of collision energy. Based on considering an energy-dependent broadening of the nucleon's density distribution, charged hadron multiplicities are studied with the phenomenological saturation model and the evolution equation dependent saturation model. By assuming the saturation scale have a small dependence on the 3-dimensional root mean square (rms) radius at different energy, the theoretical results are in good agreement with the experimental data from CMS and ALICE collaboration. Then, the predictive results in p+p collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 14 TeV of the LHC are also given.